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Sojo is on a mission to help make our relationship with fashion more sustainable by ensuring that getting our clothes altered or repaired is a hassle-free process. Deliveroo but make it fashion.

Last season, we saw Fashion Week embrace a new normal— cutting down on jet setting emissions, nearly eliminating the front row, or using deadstock material. Many brands even pulled out of Fashion Week altogether. The circus that Fashion Week became is now a digital offering that is helping to nudge fashion toward a more sustainable and equitable future.

Join Fashion Roundtable as we unite the sector during these troubling and challenging times.

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Fashion Roundtable's Tamara Cincik in conversation with the iconic Katharine Hamnett CBE - the First Lady of fashion activism and a loyal supporter of Fashion Roundtable. In this episode, Hamnett and Cincik talk about everything from Brexit to sustainability.

According to the Centre for Retail Research an estimated 180,000 retail jobs were lost in the UK in 2020. As retailers continue to face rent-charges and a cash-flow crisis, 200,000 more jobs are also in jeopardy as we enter 2021. This has been accelerated by the Arcadia Group’s administration which put thousands of jobs at risk on-the-spot, highlighting the death of the traditional high-street as we know it. It’s now fundamental for the surviving stores to provide what consumers want and need, as we learn to live in this new era.

A ‘New You’ has long been synonymous with a slimmer version of yourself — one that befits fashion’s historically rigid body standards. In the last few years the fashion industry has tasked itself to become more inclusive and diverse. Changes have therefore been made when it comes to the promotion of diet culture in fashion. But is the pivot to ‘wellness’ and ‘fitness’ just the same old agenda wrapped up in a different package?

Since March 2020, the Emergency Designer Network (EDN) have been working with a team of volunteer London-based designers to produce PPE and key garments for hospitals. Fashion Roundtable alongside other groups is supporting EDN. Here’s how you can help…

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Last night the Prime Minister announced another UK national lockdown. Whilst we understand this decision, we are concerned by its unequal impact on families and businesses.

The United Kingdom sends $42 million worth of second hand items to Kenya every year, but unfortunately many of them are ending up in landfill. As Kenya attempts to open up its own manufacturing capabilities for local fashion designers, one of the greatest challenges has been the sourcing of fabrics. So what if we employed African creatives to re-fashion these unwanted clothes into new items to sell back to European markets?

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Fashion Roundtable are saddened to learn that the French fashion giant Pierre Cardin has died at the age of 98.

Fashion contributes more to UK GDP than the fishing, music, film and automotive industries combined. Yet, the fashion sector has not been widely considered an industry of national importance throughout Brexit and other trade negotiations. This is inexplicable and inexcusable.

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